Associate Project Manager - Wayne, NJ

With a passion for life

Join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers - and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers.

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Job Overview

The Associate Project Manager provides project management support and oversight for initiatives requiring cross-functional coordination, structured execution, visibility, and timely escalation.

The role supports portfolio prioritization and project execution across Electrical and Mechanical Sustaining Engineering and manages selected sustaining projects and workstreams. The role also manages assigned Quality, Regulatory and Compliance (QRC) and Regulatory Affairs projects or workstreams, while functional subject-matter experts retain accountability for technical, quality, regulatory, and compliance content and decisions. The Associate Project Manager may also support targeted, management-approved process improvement initiatives based on business priorities and available capacity. The role works within established project and portfolio management processes and receives coaching and guidance from Project Managers, Senior Project Managers, and management as appropriate.

Job Responsibilities and Essential Duties

Project Management (for assigned projects and workstreams)

• Work with project leads and cross-functional teams to define project objectives, scope, deliverables, milestones, functional ownership, and completion criteria.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, action items, risks, dependencies, decisions, and required project documentation.
• Coordinate cross-functional project activities and follow up with team members to support completion of assigned actions and deliverables.
• Facilitate project meetings, document decisions and actions, and maintain clear ownership and follow-through.
• Monitor progress against project plans and identify potential schedule delays, risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and other execution issues. Help maintain risk and issue logs and appropriate follow ups.
• Prepare and communicate project status updates to project teams, sponsors, and management, creating dashboards, as appropriate.
• Escalate issues that may affect project scope, schedule, resources, compliance, dependencies, or deliverables.
• Support resolution of routine project execution issues and engage appropriate functional or project leadership when additional guidance or decisions are required.
• Support projects through implementation, closure, lessons learned, and transition to the appropriate functional owner.
• Maintain accurate and timely project information, including resource and budget, in established project and portfolio management systems

Sustaining Engineering

• Maintain portfolio visibility across Electrical and Mechanical Sustaining Engineering, including project priorities, schedules, milestones, risks, dependencies, and resource needs.
• Support portfolio prioritization and review discussions by providing accurate project information and highlighting potential conflicts, dependencies, and resource constraints.
• Coordinate and track actions and decisions resulting from portfolio reviews.
• Project manage selected Sustaining Engineering projects or workstreams based on project size, complexity, risk, and business need.
• Escalate significant prioritization conflicts, resource constraints, schedule risks, or other issues requiring management attention.

QRC and Regulatory Affairs

• Manage assigned QRC and Regulatory Affairs projects or defined workstreams, including project planning, scheduling, action tracking, risk and dependency management, meeting coordination, and status reporting.
• Coordinate activities across participating functions and follow up on agreed actions and deliverables.
• Monitor project progress and escalate risks, delays, dependencies, or issues that could affect project objectives or timelines.
• Work closely with functional subject-matter experts, who retain accountability for technical, quality, regulatory, and compliance content and decisions.

Process Improvement

• Support management-approved process improvement initiatives that address defined business needs, based on organizational priorities and available capacity.
• Support improvements to project management tools, templates, reporting, and ways of working

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Project Management, scientific discipline, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 2 years of combined professional, internship, or co-op experience coordinating or managing project workstreams and cross-functional initiatives in a corporate or matrixed environment.
• Experience with project planning, schedule and action tracking, status reporting, stakeholder coordination, and follow-up.
• Experience working in a corporate, technical, or matrixed environment preferred.
• Experience in the medical device industry or another regulated industry preferred.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 20%.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Working knowledge of basic project management principles, including scope, schedules, milestones, actions, risks, issues, dependencies, and status reporting.
• Familiarity with project and portfolio management tools such as Microsoft Project, JIRA, Antura, Power BI, or comparable tools, a plus.
• Ability to develop and maintain project schedules, action logs, risk and issue tracking, and project status reports.
• Ability to coordinate multiple project activities and follow up effectively on commitments and deliverables.
• Ability to facilitate project and cross-functional meetings and establish clear ownership of actions and next steps.
• Ability to identify project risks, issues, dependencies, and potential schedule impacts and escalate them appropriately.
• Ability to work effectively with stakeholders across functions in a matrixed organization.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, follow-through, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to work independently on defined assignments while recognizing when guidance, decisions, or escalation are required.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Results-oriented with demonstrated ability to complete assignments and follow through on commitments according to established schedules.
• PMP certification a plus

Salary range: $96k - $99k, 8% STIP

About us

With a firm belief that every person and community should have access to the best possible care, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions with products and solutions aiming to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. The offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Getinge employs over 12,000 people worldwide and the products are sold in more than 135 countries.

Benefits at Getinge:

At Getinge, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, which includes:

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance benefits
• 401k plan with company match
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness initiative & Health Assistance Resources
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability Benefits
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Benefits
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement

Getinge is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.